With the muzzle pointed up, measure a charge of gunpowder, pour it down the barrel. Bump the butt to settle the powder. Place a greased cloth patch over muzzle, place ball on patch, press in with ball starter, then ram all the way down with ramrod. REMOVE RAMROD FROM BARREL. You can now place percussion cap on nipple, or priming powder in pan.
They perform the same function, but, they are not the same.
depending on condition, $100-$150.
They are usually broken out by the type of action- break open, bolt action, lever action, pumps, automatic, etc. AND- the muzzleloading rifle.
A muzzleloading rifle caplock single shot rifle. At the start of the war, each unit supplied it's own arms, and they could be quite different. Later the rifle was standardized after the Springfield musket.
The 209 throws a much stronger spark into the powder charge than a no.11 or musket cap.
you probably just stop and load.
It is Black Powder, and Hawkin. It was a short barreled, large caliber muzzleloading rifle first made by a gunsmith named Hawkin.
A magazine
Put the ammuniton into the magazine and put the magazine into the rifle, cock it and pull the trigger..
No they won't fit. If you force it, it will ruin the rifle.
Ask a gunsmith.
Possible, but, expensive.